cfdisk — display or manipulate a disk partition table
cfdisk [options]
[device]
cfdisk is a
curses-based program for partitioning any block device. The
default device is /dev/sda.
Note that cfdisk provides basic partitioning functionality with a user-friendly interface. If you need advanced features, use fdisk(8) instead.
Since version 2.25 cfdisk supports MBR (DOS), GPT, SUN and SGI disk labels, but no longer provides any functionality for CHS (Cylinder-Head-Sector) addressing. CHS has never been important for Linux, and this addressing concept does not make any sense for new devices.
Since version 2.25 cfdisk also does not provide a 'print' command any more. This functionality is provided by the utilities partx(8) and lsblk(8) in a very comfortable and rich way.
If you want to remove an old partition table from a device, use wipefs(8).
−h,
−−helpDisplay help text and exit.
−L,
−−color[=when]Colorize the output. The optional argument
when can
be auto,
never or
always.
If the when argument is
omitted, it defaults to auto. The colors can
be disabled, for the current built-in default see
−−help output.
See also the COLORS section.
−V,
−−versionDisplay version information and exit.
−z,
−−zeroStart with an in-memory zeroed partition table. This option does not zero the partition table on the disk; rather, it simply starts the program without reading the existing partition table. This option allows you to create a new partition table from scratch or from an sfdisk-compatible script.
The commands for cfdisk can be entered by pressing the corresponding key (pressing Enter after the command is not necessary). Here is a list of the available commands:
bToggle the bootable flag of the current partition. This allows you to select which primary partition is bootable on the drive. This command may not be available for all partition label types.
dDelete the current partition. This will convert the current partition into free space and merge it with any free space immediately surrounding the current partition. A partition already marked as free space or marked as unusable cannot be deleted.
hShow the help screen.
nCreate a new partition from free space. cfdisk then prompts you for the size of the partition you want to create. The default size is equal to the entire available free space at the current position.
The size may be followed by a multiplicative suffix: KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB (the "iB" is optional, e.g. "K" has the same meaning as "KiB").
qQuit the program. This will exit the program without writing any data to the disk.
sSort the partitions in ascending start-sector order. When deleting and adding partitions, it is likely that the numbering of the partitions will no longer match their order on the disk. This command restores that match.
tChange the partition type. By default, new
partitions are created as Linux partitions.
uDump the current in-memory partition table to an sfdisk-compatible script file.
The script files are compatible between cfdisk, fdisk, sfdisk and other libfdisk applications. For more details see sfdisk(8).
It is also possible to load an sfdisk-script into
cfdisk if
there is no partition table on the device or when you
start cfdisk with the
−−zero
command-line option.
WWrite the partition table to disk (you must enter an uppercase W). Since this might destroy data on the disk, you must either confirm or deny the write by entering `yes' or `no'. If you enter `yes', cfdisk will write the partition table to disk and then tell the kernel to re-read the partition table from the disk.
The re-reading of the partition table does not always work. In such a case you need to inform the kernel about any new partitions by using partprobe(8) or partx(8), or by rebooting the system.
xToggle extra information about a partition.
Move the cursor to the previous or next partition. If there are more partitions than can be displayed on a screen, you can display the next (previous) set of partitions by moving down (up) at the last (first) partition displayed on the screen.
Select the preceding or the next menu item. Hitting Enter will execute the currently selected item.
All commands can be entered with either uppercase or
lowercase letters (except for Write). When in a submenu or at a prompt,
you can hit the Esc key to return to the
main menu.
Implicit coloring can be disabled by creating the empty
file /etc/terminal-colors.d/cfdisk.disable.
See terminal-colors.d(5) for more details about colorization configuration.
cfdisk does not support color customization with a color-scheme file.
CFDISK_DEBUG=allenables cfdisk debug output.
LIBFDISK_DEBUG=allenables libfdisk debug output.
LIBBLKID_DEBUG=allenables libblkid debug output.
LIBSMARTCOLS_DEBUG=allenables libsmartcols debug output.
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
The current cfdisk implementation is based on the original cfdisk from Kevin E. Martin (martin@cs.unc.edu).
The cfdisk command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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